All desire fulfilled, all problems solved
2025
Solo show
A year ago, in May 2024, I went on an expedition to Lake Elton. We stayed in a small village with the same name as the lake. From the cottage to the edge of the village, you could go straight into the steppe any of three ways: on the next street, past the kindergarten and through the cemetery. Walking the last way, you can find amazing monuments, difficult to call them crosses or tombstones: wreaths of iron flowers and leaves, crowning old graves, reaching for the sky like living trees. Around this cemetery there are dozens of meters of paths lined with rotted iron leaves, like autumn paths in a park.
I read Olivia Lang’s book «Garden against time. In search of paradise for all» in January. In the very name I was attracted by the combination «paradise for all». Can heaven be for all? The writer tells in detail about her garden, and about the etymology of the word «paradise», and about writers and artists who asked the same questions as she.
If in the English word «paradise» came from Persian and means «garden within walls», then in the Russian language «paradise» came from Indian - with the same meaning. Man will willingly perform any actions that proffer him to get into paradise - be it the purchase of indulgences in medieval society, crusade to other cities and countries, heroic acts, and even violation of rules and covenants guaranteeing entry into desired place. Concealment of sins, preparation for «better life after» can take away the already existing and leaving life.
Getting into another world is a way through death, going down to the bottom of the earth. Only by going down there can you see the best life, the limit of dreams of living.
I read Olivia Lang’s book «Garden against time. In search of paradise for all» in January. In the very name I was attracted by the combination «paradise for all». Can heaven be for all? The writer tells in detail about her garden, and about the etymology of the word «paradise», and about writers and artists who asked the same questions as she.
If in the English word «paradise» came from Persian and means «garden within walls», then in the Russian language «paradise» came from Indian - with the same meaning. Man will willingly perform any actions that proffer him to get into paradise - be it the purchase of indulgences in medieval society, crusade to other cities and countries, heroic acts, and even violation of rules and covenants guaranteeing entry into desired place. Concealment of sins, preparation for «better life after» can take away the already existing and leaving life.
Getting into another world is a way through death, going down to the bottom of the earth. Only by going down there can you see the best life, the limit of dreams of living.